“If in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.”
It would be better not to be a judge
Than fill the slot through illegitimate means;
Integrity is not a thing to fudge,
The least fraud calling for great quarantines.
With an imposter seated on that bench
Foul-aired iniquity but percolates
To lower courts, an intimated stench,
As the perception in itself creates.
A government official must be seen
As held e’en to an impossible standard
In probity, lest his practice demean
The trust in law itself, and leave it squandered.
Just such a one, we have, as did obtain
Preferment through an uncontested trick,
His title to the seat beneath a stain,
A cloudy claim, surpassing rhetoric.
Judge Gorsuch, you were felt to be a man
Of reputation: what McConnelled proffer
Induced you to betray it, thus to fan
Doubt’s conflagration, making you a scoffer?
The reputation of the court in shreds,
Encumbered by an unbecoming blot—
The Party lined up its iniquitous beds,
To which, invited, you brought your own cot.
Than fill the slot through illegitimate means;
Integrity is not a thing to fudge,
The least fraud calling for great quarantines.
With an imposter seated on that bench
Foul-aired iniquity but percolates
To lower courts, an intimated stench,
As the perception in itself creates.
A government official must be seen
As held e’en to an impossible standard
In probity, lest his practice demean
The trust in law itself, and leave it squandered.
Just such a one, we have, as did obtain
Preferment through an uncontested trick,
His title to the seat beneath a stain,
A cloudy claim, surpassing rhetoric.
Judge Gorsuch, you were felt to be a man
Of reputation: what McConnelled proffer
Induced you to betray it, thus to fan
Doubt’s conflagration, making you a scoffer?
The reputation of the court in shreds,
Encumbered by an unbecoming blot—
The Party lined up its iniquitous beds,
To which, invited, you brought your own cot.
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